Marchesa Boccella

Youlanda d' Aragon

Ken, your Portlands are gorgeous! It looks like you have 2 MBs? Is she a favorite of yours, too? YdA must be one of the most fragrant of all roses. I have a very young Duchesse de Rohan and am really looking forward to her also incredibly fragrant blooms!

HP rose Souvenir du Dr Jamain—deep velvet red darkening to burgundy red-plum and gloriously scented! My plant is virtually thornless.

Hermosa (Bourbon-China)

These roses don’t work in this climate, but I really love seeing them. Souvenir du Dr. J is hypnotic.

Sylvia, I’ll bet you have some lovely Teas and Chinas down there in CA!

I'm so jealous of your SdDJ! It's beautiful, how is the fragrance? I've wanted it for a few years but have doubts about hardiness.

Magpie, I’m not sure about SdDJ’s hardiness, but the fragrance is deep, scrumptious, old rose. Did you spot the CO state flower in the Hermosa photo? I bought some plants and seeds for my garden because I love columbines, and the CO blue ones were my paternal grandfather’s favorite flowers. He took a gazillion photos of them on family vacations! :) Carol

I’m very impressed with this Bourbon, Mme. de Sévigné. An upright bush, blooms with real substance (rain and heat tolerant) and a fragrance to die for:

And a bloom of MdS from last year, it’s always a cooler pink than Mme. Isaac Pereire but the colour and form does vary:

Mme. de Sevigne is beautiful. I used to have it...don't remember what happened to it. Does it have to be a picture from this year? Here's Madame Lierval, hp:

Capitaine Dyel de Graville, bourbon, said to be a sport of SDLM but more vigorous. I don't know, my plant is not more vigorous. Blooms took a few years to get to this pretty shape:

Monsieur le Capitaine Louis Frere

General Jacqueminot

Souvenir de la Malmaison Rouge or Leveson Gower

So many beautiful roses here! I really love this rose class. Im enjoying everyone's photos!

My Reine des Violettes Imposter has been the most beautiful rose in my garden this week. I missed getting a photo of it on it's best day but here it is leading into full flush. Can you find my mailbox?

My other HPs are just starting.

Okay! Quick photos from this morning. Here's the Royal Imposter.

Her blooms are larger than ever this year. She started as a band May 2021

Wow these are all so amazing

That's some mailbox rose, librarian. I keep thinking it might be good to do a thread about roses from Vintage. Here's another from them:

Gloire de Chedane Guinnoisseau

Maggie...my biggest bourbon, still going strong

Souvenir de la Malmaison

There are so many plants from the past that can be so good....one hardly needs to keep up with the latest and greatest. Although some can be healthier. There have been some efforts in that direction.

I got a new Reine des Violettes this spring from DA Roses. I think i've put it in too much shade.

Anna de Diesbach...so fragrant, so bs prone

Nollie, your Mme. de Sévigné is gorgeous! I wish I could bury my nose in her petals.

Erasmus, your roses are always a joy to see! I wish I had a place to try a Capitaine Dyel de Graville. What a romantic Victorian! I used to grow SdlM, and even though she hates PNW wet weather, she always made more blooms, so I’d just clip the mess and wait for future flushes. I’m glad you grow Maggie. I love the history of that one. The Rose Rustlers still hold a special place in my heart, and my dad graduated from ATM. Feel free to post photos from any year. Your garden rivals Mottisfont!

Librarian Gardener, I wonder which delightful ”Not RdV” is in your garden? I think there are a few going around, and they are all just as lovely as RdV. Your rose is so full of petals that I could faint in ecstasy!

Oh, shucks and geez, Portland..you're too kind. Ben that is the best Mme. Isaac I have seen. Unbelievable for one year!

OMG, Ben! Your MIP is sublime!! I don’t think I’ve seen a lovelier specimen. I so wish I could grow her well here, but she is a diseased mess in Portland. Big Bourbons and deadheading: If you have one that is truly remontant, deadheading (and light pruning) helps to increase the number of sporadic summer blossoms and fall mini show. I hum to make the chore lighter. If you have a Bourbon that hardly, if ever, reblooms, deadheading can encourage the stubborn bugger to offer some fall flowers. You can also use hand hedge shears and whack chunks at a time. Unfortunately, I have to seal cuts due to our plague of cane borers, so I try to get meditative about the chore.

Such gorgeous roses here, wow! Well I won’t be posting my pics of Mme. Isaac Pereire after seeing Bens!! It’s certainly vigorous with the potential to be huge, but the blooms are not very heat tolerant and they ball and brown after the heavy spring rains here. Mme. de Sévigné is still fairly compact but it beats MIP hands down for toughness.

I would love to have ’Maggie’, yours is stupendous Erasmus.

Carol,

For many years I had wanted to grow Mme Isaac in Dallas, and there was one local rose specialty nursery that consistently stocked her. She was always the sickest rose at that nursery, a small tangle of thorns and blackspot. And every year I’d put one in my cart and put her back, feeling too foolish to buy the worst looking plant among thousands of beautiful rosebushes at that nursery. I finally got her when I moved to CA, the weather here really suits her.

Ben, I don’t know if you remember that I grew up in Dallas. There have been several years of forum conversations since I mentioned it, but I wanted to mention it again and share my empathy! I can so relate to your temptation and wise hesitance where MIP was concerned. I honestly doubt she ever looked any better in Dallas than when you spotted her blackspotted self at the nursery. I am so thrilled to see your magnificent CA specimen now! Your patience and longing are finally quenched; you absolutely deserve the long awaited reward of that glorious mountain of fluff and fragrance in your garden. Carol

Carol

I did remember you grew up in Dallas, so yes, I am very happy to know that you can relate to the climate challenge and the reward of living elsewhere!

I stopped over in Dallas on a return trip from CA to AR and back to CA when I was about 12 and travelling by myself. My Aunt Margaret picked me up and took me to her favorite hair salon and had my hair done. Then she took me to lunch at Neiman Marcus. I remember big grain multicolored sugar and lots of different kinds of rolls in a basket. Blue water glasses. Now we have a BIL in the Dallas area and one in Houston.

Houston just recently had a terrible storm that did a lot of damage. Lived in Houston 12 years so I know the climate challenge too though it's probably wetter than Dallas. Some areas near the San Jacinto river routinely flooded.

My second Madame Isaac had short little stems that annoyed me.

Another fine hybrid perpetual....Grandmother's Hat:

Thank you, Nollie.

Erasmus, what delightful memories! Lunch at NM—fancy! I’d like to see that colorful sugar. I’ll bet you went to the dowtown store. I’m trying to remember the name of the luncheon tea room. NM was always a very rare and special occasion shop for our family. My father gave my mom 10th, 25th, etc. anniversary presents from NM. My sister has my mom’s silver anniversary earrings and necklace set. Yes, the Houston area has really been hit with severe weather! I still have a number of connections in the area, too. It seems like I’m always texting to check on someone. Grandmother’s Hat is a real charmer! If I had even an inch to squeeze it into my garden….

LOVE all the roses shared above! Heres my humble offering in comparison, SDLM.

My MIP is in her second year and looking a bit rough in her pot. After seeing Ben’s picture I‘m inspired to get her into a better situation since she clearly has a lot more to give when she is happy!

As for what is blooming for me now - as with my other shares these are all two or three year old roses in pots but I'm hoping to get most into the ground this year.

Variegata Di Bologna changed my mind about striped roses when I first saw her almost a decade ago soon after I moved to Seattle from Los Angeles. Now I finally have her and in her second year she is giving me a lovely spring flush despite some over the top proliferation in places

Of course. once I got started on stripes I had to get Honorine de Brabant

Coupe D'Hebe just getting started

Mme Dubost showing off a bit of spring proliferation

My beloved Marchessa Boccella - I actually have two now because I forgot to check helpmefind when I ordered Jacques Cartier from ARE 😄 But I’m not complaining because she is healthy, well mannered and a near continuous bloomer for me.

A few more shots of Souv. du Dr. Jamain. He can be trained as a climber, his long canes can be pegged to burst into blooms all along or he can be pruned to form a large shrub. The fragrance is incredible! His velvet blooms burn in west sun. He is fairly shade tolerant and is especially good with indirect light.

I think I might need Souvenir du Dr. Jamain too. What a beauty! And Ben, I love your Madame Isaac Periere…. But you are right! It will get huge. Mine is almost scaring me. I have it stretched out along the east wall of the house and I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say it’s every bit of twenty feet wide. Today I was noticing the new canes shooting up the wall straight up. One must be at least ten feet tall and doesn’t look like it’s done growing. I put it in the ground in the fall of 2022, so it’s not been in my garden quite two years. I did have severe powdery mildew troubles this spring and it bloomed beautifully anyway.

Sou. du Dr. Jamain is unbelievable....Munstead Wood doesn't have anything on the Dr. I planted Dr. Jamain in a hot, dry spot and he died. Might have to try again.

Sounds like your Mme Isaac is a good one, Judi. For some reason mine was never that vigorous.

This is the most marvelous thread.

Mme. Ernest Calvat, first bloom (of this season) opening.

And fully open..

My Souvenir du Président Lincoln on it’s scond year with me. This picture doesn’t do it justice - the bloom is very densely petaled and huge!

Also, my MIP is finally blooming! She’s looking a bit better after a dose of liquid iron and a new pot with fresh potting mix.